BA 300 FINAL PAPER 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Mr henry potter the richest man in bedford falls is the principle
shareholder in Bailey Savings & loan and the banks board of
trustees. He dismisses peter bailey's restraint toward customers
who fall behind in their loan as "sentimental hogwash". Mr. Potters
business philosophy is most consistent with:
Answer: Objectivism and shareholder orientation
◉ In recent Businessweek article, one scholar wrote: "When people
judge their chances of experiencing a good outcome -- getting a great
job or financial security -- they estimate their odds to be higher than
average. What concept matches that description?
Answer: c. the illusion of optimism
◉ Which of the following statements about advertising ethics is not
true according to the video and reading "Ethics in Advertising"?
Answer: b. Because advertising is morally neutral, and because truth
is always a matter of opinion, it is impossible to identify any limits
on distortion
,◉ According to the text, a businessperson operating under the
illusion of control believes he can control events more than he really
can and therefore:
Answer: d. Is likely to underestimate the risk facing his company
from a particular decision.
◉ In a February 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal, Forbs columnist Rich
Karlgaar offered a vigorous ethical defense of Apple's use of factories
run by a company named Foxconn in Shenzhen, China to make
certain Apple products, including the iPad.Apple use of Foxconn
employees to manufacture Apple products is:
Answer: Consistent with ISCT, assuming the inspection by the
independent labor group confirms that Foxconn's treatment of a
workers in China offends no broadly held held ethical norms.
◉ On November 4, 2013 the Department of Justice Office of Public
Affairs issued a press release stating that Johnson and Johnson and
its subsidiaries agreed to pay more than $2.2 billion in criminal and
civil liability for making off-label was the result of multiple lawsuits
filed under the ________________ provision _________________, which allows
prove citizens to bring action on behalf of the government and to
share in any recovery.
Answer: c. Qui tam; False Claims Act
◉ Carl, a junior executive, has worked for 10 years at a major tech
company. He lives in accordance with Nozcick's Rights Theory. As he
,pursues his next promotion, which of the following behaviors will he
consider to be ethical?
Answer: e. all the above
◉ Calicorp, a California, has decided to fire Michael, a fat hairy
Muslim employee that is in ISIS. Several employees have complained
to the chief executive officer that, now that Osama Bin Laden has
been killed they feel that it would be un-American to continue to
employee a Muslim out of fear that he will seek revenge for Bin
Laden's death. If Calicorp fired Michael because they believes his
religion makes it more likely he will seek revenge for the death of
Osama Bin laden:
Answer: b. Calicorp will be liable if the heart of the reason the
Company is firing Michael is because of his religion
◉ A recent survey of 1000 Wall Street analysts found that two-thirds
of them had accepted various favors from companies they follow and
on which they offer guidance to potential investors. The analysts
who denied they could be influenced to give special treatment to
companies who gave them favors may be suffering under the
distorting effect of:
Answer: a. the illusion of superiority
◉ According to the textbook, why does the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act make it illegal for companies and their employees t make
, payments or give rewards to a foreign government or other high-
rank official?
Answer: e. Money paid to influence officials to make favorable
decisions they would otherwise make disrupts the free market
system.
◉ According to the text, the federal organizational sentencing
guidelines use a "carrot and stick" to encourage corporations to
comply with the federal legal mandates including laws prohibiting
fraud. The "carrot" of the guidelines:
Answer: a. Calls for decreases in the level of potential punishment
for companies that establish strong internal controls to detect and
root our illegal behavior.
◉ Destructive Development, Inc, is trying to get an ordinance passed
by the City Council that will favor their business. Nothing is written
down and the company actually has no intention of following
through with the promise. This is:
Answer: b.An attempted bribe, because a promise of something of
value in this context has the same effect as if something has actually
been received.
◉ According to the text, under the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley law
legislating corporate governance and accounting reform:
Answer: e. all the above
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Mr henry potter the richest man in bedford falls is the principle
shareholder in Bailey Savings & loan and the banks board of
trustees. He dismisses peter bailey's restraint toward customers
who fall behind in their loan as "sentimental hogwash". Mr. Potters
business philosophy is most consistent with:
Answer: Objectivism and shareholder orientation
◉ In recent Businessweek article, one scholar wrote: "When people
judge their chances of experiencing a good outcome -- getting a great
job or financial security -- they estimate their odds to be higher than
average. What concept matches that description?
Answer: c. the illusion of optimism
◉ Which of the following statements about advertising ethics is not
true according to the video and reading "Ethics in Advertising"?
Answer: b. Because advertising is morally neutral, and because truth
is always a matter of opinion, it is impossible to identify any limits
on distortion
,◉ According to the text, a businessperson operating under the
illusion of control believes he can control events more than he really
can and therefore:
Answer: d. Is likely to underestimate the risk facing his company
from a particular decision.
◉ In a February 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal, Forbs columnist Rich
Karlgaar offered a vigorous ethical defense of Apple's use of factories
run by a company named Foxconn in Shenzhen, China to make
certain Apple products, including the iPad.Apple use of Foxconn
employees to manufacture Apple products is:
Answer: Consistent with ISCT, assuming the inspection by the
independent labor group confirms that Foxconn's treatment of a
workers in China offends no broadly held held ethical norms.
◉ On November 4, 2013 the Department of Justice Office of Public
Affairs issued a press release stating that Johnson and Johnson and
its subsidiaries agreed to pay more than $2.2 billion in criminal and
civil liability for making off-label was the result of multiple lawsuits
filed under the ________________ provision _________________, which allows
prove citizens to bring action on behalf of the government and to
share in any recovery.
Answer: c. Qui tam; False Claims Act
◉ Carl, a junior executive, has worked for 10 years at a major tech
company. He lives in accordance with Nozcick's Rights Theory. As he
,pursues his next promotion, which of the following behaviors will he
consider to be ethical?
Answer: e. all the above
◉ Calicorp, a California, has decided to fire Michael, a fat hairy
Muslim employee that is in ISIS. Several employees have complained
to the chief executive officer that, now that Osama Bin Laden has
been killed they feel that it would be un-American to continue to
employee a Muslim out of fear that he will seek revenge for Bin
Laden's death. If Calicorp fired Michael because they believes his
religion makes it more likely he will seek revenge for the death of
Osama Bin laden:
Answer: b. Calicorp will be liable if the heart of the reason the
Company is firing Michael is because of his religion
◉ A recent survey of 1000 Wall Street analysts found that two-thirds
of them had accepted various favors from companies they follow and
on which they offer guidance to potential investors. The analysts
who denied they could be influenced to give special treatment to
companies who gave them favors may be suffering under the
distorting effect of:
Answer: a. the illusion of superiority
◉ According to the textbook, why does the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act make it illegal for companies and their employees t make
, payments or give rewards to a foreign government or other high-
rank official?
Answer: e. Money paid to influence officials to make favorable
decisions they would otherwise make disrupts the free market
system.
◉ According to the text, the federal organizational sentencing
guidelines use a "carrot and stick" to encourage corporations to
comply with the federal legal mandates including laws prohibiting
fraud. The "carrot" of the guidelines:
Answer: a. Calls for decreases in the level of potential punishment
for companies that establish strong internal controls to detect and
root our illegal behavior.
◉ Destructive Development, Inc, is trying to get an ordinance passed
by the City Council that will favor their business. Nothing is written
down and the company actually has no intention of following
through with the promise. This is:
Answer: b.An attempted bribe, because a promise of something of
value in this context has the same effect as if something has actually
been received.
◉ According to the text, under the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley law
legislating corporate governance and accounting reform:
Answer: e. all the above
